The elegant universe superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory
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| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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New York :
Vintage Books,
2000.
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| Edición: | 1st Vintage Books ed. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The edge of knowledge
- Tied up with string
- The dilemma of space, time, and the quanta
- Space, time, end the eye of the beholder
- Of warps and ripples
- Microscopic weirdness
- The need for a new theory: general relativity vs. quantum mechanics
- The cosmic symphony
- Nothing but music: the essentials of superstring theory
- The "super" in superstrings
- Moer dimensions than meet the eye
- The smoking gun: experimental signatures
- String theory and the fabric of spacetime
- Quantum geometry
- Tearing the fabric of space
- Beyond strings: in search of M-Theory
- Black holes: a string/M-theory perspective
- Reflections on cosmology
- Unification in the twenty-first century
- Prospects.